News

October 25, 2024
2025 Germany Tour Announced!
After a successful Germany tour in 2023, we are delighted to announce a new Germany tour for 2025.

21 Feb – 25 Oct 2020
"K"-PROJECT - Franz Kafka - The Castle
Open again & extended until 25th October!Martin Kippenberger’s legendary artwork "The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ...

May 2020
EFMD 2019 - Klangtraube Release
A dignified and extraordinary session of four exceptional musicians in memory of Edgar Froese: Hans Joachim Roedelius, Paul Frick, Thorsten ...
Music

2025
Platz der Republik, West-Berlin, August 1st 1987
This famous concert presents the line-up composed of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke & Paul Haslinger.

2024
Live at the Kelvin Hall Glasgow, November 20th 197
This famous concert presents the line-up composed of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke & Peter Baumann.

2023
Silent Green Session 2022
This session is a real time composition the band performed at the Krake Festival in Berlin. (28 min)

2020
The Sessions VI
The EP contains a real time composition from the TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss, Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick. (49 min)

2019
The Sessions V
THE SESSIONS V EP contains instant compositions (98+ min of music) from the TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane & Ulrich Schnauss ...

2018
The Sessions III
The EP contains two real time live compositions from the TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and Hoshiko Yamane. (77 min)

2017
Quantum Gate
Tangerine Dream's studio album QUANTUM GATE was due for release on September 29, 2017, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the ...

2015
Out of this world
This is the first album compiled by Bianca Froese-Acquaye (Edgar Froese's wife) after the passing of her husband on January 20, 2015.

2014
Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014 – The Concerts
Material from Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra Farewell Tour through various places around Europe in 2014.

2014
GTA 5 - The Cinematographic Score
The score for the groundbreaking game GTA 5 was based on the merging of four different artist inputs, a procedure the music supervisor of the game ...

2013
Live at Admiralspalast
This is not just a concert, it’s a historic document.

2012
Live at Admiralspalast
Enjoy a warm early summer night in Germany's capital with a score by TD.

2010
Dream Mixes V
DM V is the fifth album of the 'Dream Mixes' series and was released in 2010.

2009
Rocking out the Bats
'Rocking Out The Bats' concert in Berlin on August 30, 2009. The concert was part of the 'Citadel Music Festival'.

2009
Live at Dussmann Berlin
On 30th May 2009 Tangerine Dream played at the Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann.

2007
Orange Odyssey
Live set from of Inauguration Ceremony of the Paul Wunderlich Museum in Eberswalde near Berlin.

2006
40 Years Roadmap to Music
Released after the Berlin Tempodrom concert on September 21, 2006, featuring three tracks composed and recorded by Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese and ...

2005
Jeanne D’Arc
This album is inspired by the history of the Hundred Years' War in the 15th Century, in which the brave and - in modern terms - emancipated young ...

2004
East - TD live in Berlin 1990 (Vault 2)
The second album of the 'Vault' series, featuring unaltered remastered original concerts.

1995
Tyranny of Beauty
TD's 1995 studio album Tyranny Of Beauty was the seventh Grammy nominated TD product in a row and follows the stylistic tradition of its ...

1992 / 1999
Rockoon
Rockoon was Grammy nominated as "Best New Age Album 1992" and reached the Top Ten in the Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard ...

1989
Destination Berlin

1989
Lily on the beach
This marks the beginning of a longer relationship with acoustic wind instruments. On the track 'Radio City' Jerome Froese appears the first time on a ...

1987
Livemiles
Livemiles was the last album on the Jive Electro label and the departure of Chris Franke, leaving TD after 16 years immediately after the Reichstag ...

1985
Le Parc
The 1985 album Le Parc was the last official studio release with Johannes Schmoelling, who left Tangerine Dream in October 1985. The title track of ...

1984
Poland – The Warsaw Concert
In December 1983 Tangerine Dream played two concerts at the Warsaw Ice Stadium. After their concert at Palast der Republik in East-Berlin played ...

1981
Exit
Exit containes six tracks produced with the then latest equipment.

1980 / 1985
Pergamon
On Pergamon, Johannes Schmoelling was introduced on a TD album for the first time. The new line-up’s first concert at Palast der Republik in ...

1979
Force Majeure
Recorded at the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin, this album shows Tangerine Dream's further evolution to a more melodic sound, with electric guitars, ...

1974
Phaedra
This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which later became known as their trademark and of the ...
Biography

Biography
Founded by Edgar Froese in 1967, Tangerine Dream were formative in the genre of electronic music, with long instrumental tracks based on synthesizer ...

The TD-history (extended)
When the term Berlin School is used in the music scene, a musical style is being referred to which has influenced electronic music up to and ...

Tangerine Dream 1967 – 1973
The first concert ever given by Tangerine Dream was in January 1968 in the Technical University of Berlin.

Tangerine Dream 1974 – 1983
TD’s first release on Virgin Records was the album Phaedra in 1974. The album marked the beginning of the group's international success, achieving ...

Tangerine Dream 1984 – 1988
Tangerine Dream then reduced their number of live appearances and increased their activity in the film music industry.

Tangerine Dream 1988 – 1990
Optical Race moved the band's sound into a different direction when compared to recordings from the 1970s.

Tangerine Dream 1990 – 2000
At the beginning of 1990, Edgar Froese was looking for a saxophone and flute player. Friends in Vienna recommended Linda Spa.

Tangerine Dream 2001 – 2014
On January 2001 TD started working on Dante Alighieri´s La Divina Commedia. This deeply philosophical and mysterious story tells the reader the paths ...

Tangerine Dream from 2020
In June 2020, Paul Frick who is also member of the electronic music ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, joined Tangerine Dream as an official member.

Members
Lineup

Edgar Willmar Froese
In 1967, Edgar founded the band Tangerine Dream and started to experiment with sequencers and synthesizers, exploring and innovating with sound and ...
FAQs

Answered by Edgar Froese
In 1974, Tangerine Dream left their birth place Berlin for London – was this decision important for their career?
It was the most important decision in the forty years TD’s existence. If we had stayed in Berlin and in Germany then, a diffusion of our music at an international level wouldn’t have been possible. Concerning progressive rock music, Germany was nothing ...

Answered by Edgar Froese
Sharp tongues say that TD had already worked with tapes and other sound storage media in the seventies. Is live also live when it is not “now” does live remain ?
Good advertising slogan. In many old fotos and in films you can see that all three band members are having a very slow Revox tape machine. Of course, you might come to the idea that the music you can hear there comes from the sound storage media. The ...



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